Mosquito-borne Diseases

Dengue, Dog Heartworm, EEE, Malaria, SLE, WNV

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Anopheles gambiae mosquito, a malarial vector (photo by James Gathany).  Click on the image to access the Public Health Image Library of the CDC for this and other images.

Why Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit AIDS

Dengue Fever Links

• Dengue Fever - State Health Fact Sheet

• Wikipedia

Dog Heartworm

• Dog Heartworm

• American Heartworm Society - Canine Heartworm Disease

• American Veterinary Medical Association

• Wikipedia

• Questions Regarding Eastern Equine Encephalitis and Horses
• New Jersey Approach to Encephalitis Prevention
• Eastern Equine Encephalitis - NJ State Health Fact Sheet
• Wikipedia

Malaria - 1992 NJMCA Symposium

• History of Malaria in New Jersey

• Malaria in New Jersey - 1991

• Indigenous Malaria Cases - Monmouth County 1991

• The Impact of an Indigenous Case of Malaria on Camden County

• The Biology of Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say

Malaria Links

• Malaria Foundation International - the most common and deadly parasitic disease in the world.
• Human Diseases and Insect Vectors - (From Virginia Tech, also covers Plague, Lyme, Scabies. and other arboviral diseases)
• Malaria - NJ State Health Fact Sheet
• Dr. Seuss's Ann Anopheles (from WW2, intended for soldier information sheets, historical)
• Wikipedia

St. Louis Encephalitis Links

• Regarding the recent outbreak of SLE (mosquito control applies as well to West Nile)

• SLE Fact Sheet

• Frequently Asked Questions about St. Louis Encephalitis. - CDC

• SLE Fact Sheet - CDC

• Encephalitis outbreak summaries including SLE for the US.

• Wikipedia

West Nile Fever  - Species List - Identifying Crows and Hawks - Kestrel ID and Notification

From the New Jersey Mosquito Control Community:

• Culex pipiens Fact Sheet and Species Account

From the New Jersey Dept. of Health/OMCC & SMCC/Agriculture:

• West Nile Test Results

• West Nile Alert and Facts Sheets - Protocols, guidelines, information by the NJ Department of Health.

• NJDEP Office of Mosquito Control Coordination & New Jersey State Mosquito Control Commission

• NJ Dept Agriculture West Nile Information - Equine oriented.

From New York:

• New York City Department of Health

• New York State Health Department

• New York State Health Department - Map of Outbreak

• Cornell's Environmental Risk Analysis Program - click on West Nile 

• Cornell's WESTNILEVIRUS-L Listserve

From Other US States and Other Jurisdictions:

• Canada: Population and Public Health Branch (LCDC) WN Surveillance 

• Alabama: Public Health

• Alaska:  Epidemiology/Public Health

• Arizona: Office of Infectious Disease Services and Vector-borne and Zoonotic Disease Section

• Arkansas: Health Department

• California: Vector-borne Disease Surveillance Program and West Nile Virus Surveillance Information Center

• Colorado: Disease Control/Environmental Epidemiology

• Connecticut: Department of Environmental Protection

• Delaware: Department of Health

• District of Columbia: Department of Health

• Florida: Medical Entomology Laboratory (excellent encephalitis site) and Dept of Health and AG and Fish and Wildlife (Bird Mortality)

• Georgia: Division of Public Health

• Hawaii:  

• Idaho:  Health and Welfare

• Illinois: Public Health

• Indiana: Dept. of Health

• Iowa:  Public Health

• Kansas: Public Health and Kansas State University (report dead birds)

• Kentucky: Department of Health 

• Louisiana: Health and Hospitals

• Maine: Department of Human Services

• Maryland: Community and Public Health Administration

• Massachusetts: Department of Public Health

• Michigan: Department of Agriculture 

• Minnesota: Department of Public Health

• Mississippi: Division of Epidemiology/Virology

• Missouri: Department of Health and Senior Services

• Montana: Public Health and Human Services and Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department

• Nebraska: Health and Human Services

• Nevada: 

• New Hampshire: Dept Health and Human Services  

• New Mexico: Office of Epidemiology

• North Carolina: Public Health Pest Management and Mosquito Programs and State Veterinarian

• North Dakota: Arbovirus Encephalitis Surveillance Program

• Ohio: Dept of Health and Ohio State University's Site 

• Oklahoma: Department of Health

• Oregon:  

• Pennsylvania: West Nile Surveillance Program  and Penn State's Site

• Rhode Island: Dept Health and Dept Environmental Management 

• South Carolina: Dept of Health Fact Sheet

• South Dakota: Department of Health

• Tennessee: Communicable and Environmental Disease Unit

• Texas:  Zoonosis Control (Public Health)

• Utah:

• Vermont: Dept Health

• Virginia: Dept Health and Office of Epidemiology WN Site

• Washington:  Environmental Health and Safety

• West Virginia: Dept HHR and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Program

• Wisconsin: Department of Health and Family Services

• Wyoming:  Preventive Health and Safety Division

From the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):

General Arboviral Information and Encephalitis

• Arboviral Encephalitides

• Information on Arboviral Encephalitides

• Guidelines for Arbovirus Surveillance Programs in the US.  Provides epidemiological and environmental backgrounds to St. Louis, Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis. (Requires Acrobat Reader - download free from http://www.adobe.com)

West Nile Fever

• West Nile Virus Homepage

• Frequently Asked Questions about West Nile.

• A West Nile outbreak in Romania.

• Hubalek's overview of West Nile fever outbreaks in Europe, arthropod vectors, transmission cycles and dead end hosts.

From the US Geological Survey:

• USGS West Nile Links

• National Biological Information Infrastructure - good media links at end of article.

• West Nile Virus Maps from National Atlas (USGS) (archive for 2000)

• USGS Virus Maps

From the US Department of Agriculture:

• APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)- West Nile Virus

• West Nile Virus (WNV) in Equids in the Northeastern United States in 2000 (pdf report)

How to Use Repellents Safely:

• Using Insect Repellents Safely - From EPA

• Mosquito Control Methods - from our own website.